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| Being mindful of our delicate environment starts at home with a thorough hunt for all electrical equipment large and small that’s wasting en...

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| We receive a quite few schematics from readers at our editorial offices. With these, it is frequently the case that the designer has not tak...

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| What do most electronics engineers enjoy a lot? Designing printed circuit boards, of course! In an irregular series of articles we would lik...

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| Designing a power supply for one of your circuits can beplain sailing but also turn out to be a surprisingly complex job.Switch-mode power s...

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| What did you say BTX was again? Well, it’s just the successor of ATX! ATX is the collective term for the electrical and mechanical character...

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| There is a new standard these days for connecting hard disks and DVD drives: SATA. You may already have noticed that new PCs don’t contain t...

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| This design is a follow-up to the triumphant ‘Battery Revitaliser’ project published in the September 2001 issue of Elector Electronics. Fro...

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| In single phase AC induction motors, often used in fridges and washing machines, a start winding is used during the starting phase. When the...

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| Nowadays some first-rate voltage references are available. Take the LM385 for example: this is available for different voltages and even com...

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| The increased availability of fast ADSL Internet connections has made it more attractive to install a small RJ45 Ethernet network in the hom...